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Old Sun Feb 20, 2022, 02:35am
Mike Goodwin Mike Goodwin is offline
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Originally Posted by Nevadaref View Post
What should they do?
DQ A4 prior to the start of the third quarter or deem the wrongly charged T something which cannot be changed at this point?
Ok, sorry to bring in a different sport (and different rules, obviously), but there might be a piece or two of good information contained therein.

From the USA Hockey casebook: May the Referee change an assessed penalty any time after play resumes if it is realized that a penalty was incorrectly assessed according to the playing rules?

No. Rule References 502(a and e).

The Referee may not add, change, or delete a penalty after play has resumed following penalty assessment. This includes after a game. If a rule has been misapplied, the Referee is obligated to inform the governing body so that a modification could be possible under Supplementary Discipline (Rule 410).

However, the Referee should change any clerical error noted on the scoresheet prior to signing the sheet. For example, if the Referee properly assessed a game misconduct penalty, but it was incorrectly recorded on the scoresheet as a misconduct, this should be corrected prior to signing the scoresheet.

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The crew misapplied rule 10-5-1-i by not charging the TF directly to the offender for the pre-game dunk, but at least charged it indirectly to the HC, resulting in the loss of coaching-box privileges. Ruling this a Team Technical Foul is also misapplying a rule, as there is no provision to penalize a pre-game dunk in 10-2 (and any foul in this section does not cause the coach to lose the coaching box).

Since it is not a clerical error (which can be fixed anytime before the Referee approves the final score), and it is not a correctable error as in 2-10, my opinion is that the 'statute of limitations' would expire after the ball becomes live following the administration of the last part of the penalty (the division line throw-in). "Retroactively" assessing the TF to A4, due to a crew error of this kind, is unfair to A4.

If the crew had inadvertently assessed the TF to A14 and it was truly A4, that is 'fixable' even if it results in A4's disqualification for being A4's second TF.
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